Man survives James Bond-style attack by car rigged with remote control guns

Guardian ^ | Thursday 25 July 2013 13.47 EDT | Associated Press in Johannesburg

[Pan_Yan]

A Czech fugitive has survived an attack in South Africa by assailants in a car fitted with remote-controlled guns hidden behind the rear licence plate of a car.

Radovan Krejcir, a Czech fugitive who was sentenced in his country last year to 11 years in jail for tax fraud, emerged unscathed from Wednesday's episode, which peppered his bullet-proof Mercedes Benz with impact marks. The empty, parked vehicle where the weapons were hidden burst into flames after the shooting, possibly destroying evidence.

"All my life is like James Bond stuff," Krejcir said with a chuckle in an interview with Eyewitness News, a South African media outlet. "That's how I live my life."

And who might want to kill him? At first, Krejcir reportedly said he didn't know. Then he said that if he had any theories, he wasn't saying.

The episode was the one of the most outlandish chapters in the long saga of the underworld in Johannesburg, where turf battles over drugs, fraud schemes and other spoils sometimes turn deadly. Over the years, South Africans have been riveted by this fringe universe of hit men, corrupt cops, sleaze merchants and grisly murders.

[Pan_Yan]

Of interest.

[TurboZamboni]

The episode was the one of the most outlandish chapters in the long saga of the underworld in Johannesburg, where turf battles over drugs, fraud schemes and other spoils sometimes turn deadly. Over the years, South Africans have been riveted by this fringe universe of hit men, corrupt cops, sleaze merchants and grisly murders.

Sounds like Detroit.

[jsanders2001]

Most guys I’ve interviewed that make such type of claims usually turn out to be crackpots that are dying for attention.

[null and void]

Here we just take over the drive-by-wire system and crash them at high speed into a palm tree...

[BBell]

Failed hit man uses James Bond-style machine gun hidden behind license plate

[shove_it]

This guy sure knows how to take a joke.

[Pan_Yan]

Certainly one time when paying for the bullet proof options on your Mercedes is not excessive.

[UCANSEE2]

Yeah.... well in South Africa, this is a dealer installed option.

[mykroar]

“No Mr. Krejcir, I expect you to die.”

[RandallFlagg]

Heh!
I still can’t figure out how to do Le Chiffre’s poker chip flip trick.
With or without the Vesper Martini.

[Slings and Arrows]

Somebody tried to cancel the Czech.

[ansel12]

Well played.

[Slings and Arrows]

*tips_hat*

[Perdogg]

ping